OBR News-o-Rama: 11/30 AM

The latest from the much-imitated, never-duplicated OBR Newswire, maintained by the calloused hands of dedicated web surfers since 1999.

Two primary themes emerged from yesterday's media availability, which amounted to Romeo Crennel's discussion with the media mob, as well as some locker room time with players.

The first theme is how the Browns are adapting to increased attention from the bandwagoning national media which about three months ago was busy labeling the Browns as one of the worst teams in the league. Romeo Crennel appeared on ESPN's Mike and Mike radio program on Wednesday, and said he didn't really thrive on those sort of experiences. Coverage: ABJChronicle-TelegramTribune-ChroniclePlain DealerCanton Rep

The Browns offensive line has been the engine of the team's improvement in 2007. The way that the NFL works, though, is that the vast amount of attention is lavished on the quarterback and head coach (in good times, and bad). As a result, it's good to see a lot of local coverage of what is, in my opinion, the real story of the Browns improvement in 2007. James Walker's story in the Columbus Dispatch is excellent. Coverage: Chronicle-TelegramCBus DispatchDispatch 2 (Joe Thomas)

FWIW, we still have occasional outages of the wire when it starts getting slammed by users. I think I've figured out some technical patches around this, but need to get a bit of free time to implement them. In the interim, one way to avoid traffic jams is to subscribe to the RSS feed and get new links delivered to you throughout the day. After over a year using it, I still love Google Reader as a way to track news feeds.

OBR PODCAST AVAILABLE

We've posted last night's radio program, an action-packed two hours of sheer sports radio brilliance, into the OBR's Muni Lot. Competing with the Cowboys-Packers game and the host's incompetence, the gang wound up talking, yes, about the Cleveland Browns. We needed more Browns fans to bail us out of oru weak show prep, so we threatened to breathlessly talk about fantasy teams and VH-1's Greatest Child Stars countdown unless we got more emails and phone calls. The threats worked, and helped to create yet another radio broadcast that deserves to burned into the cerebral cortexes of all of mankind.

It's posted in the Muni Lot, one of three different Cleveland sports podcasts from yesterday captured in the OBR's hidden dark underbelly.

The Muni Lot is happy to announce the addition of our third podcast... You can now subscribe to Moohead Radio via the Lot. Moohead puts on a very slick web radio broadcast each day, which you can catch live from 5-6PM at Moohead Radio.